Can you name another movie that EVERYBODY saw in the 80's?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
shareKarate Kid
The Goonies
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Ghostbusters, Top Gun, maybe Return of the Jedi.
Never saw The Goonies and The Karate Kid back in the day.
Ghostbusters
Top 10 Highest Grossing Movies Of The 80s:
E.T
Return of the Jedi
Empire Strikes Back
Batman
Raiders of the lost Ark
Ghostbusters
Beverly Hills Cop
Back to the Future
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Top Gun
I feel like we can't get these cultural touchstones anymore, and I can't figure out why. In my estimation it happened sometime after the new millennium. Look at the list presented here on the page of 80s movies. You could make an even bigger list of the 90s.
Of course, we've had some great hits and blockbusters along the way.... but I feel like they're not as culturally relevant as these movies that came out in these two decades.
-Too many options today?
-Desensitized by all the CGI?
-Stories are not orginal?
-Characters not original?
-Oversaturated market?
-Not as many quality actors?
-All of the above?
Don't get me wrong, I love cinema through today. But, I don't think we'll be talking or viewing 2000s, or 2010s, an so forth the same manner as we still talk about the 80s and 90s
I think you're right..from what I can tell the 70's really started the resurgence in popular movies..movies like French Connection, Godfather, Exorcist ramped everything up and then..WHAM! Jaws created the blockbuster and Star Wars CEMENTED the blockbuster..before we knew it cineplexes sprouted up all over the country. So yeah, the 70's sprouted the types of fantastic array of movies we saw in the 80's and 90's. Also, a movie in a theater was so different than the typical programming on network TV. TV shows looked cheap, we got junk like Love Boat, Charlies Angels, Mork, Kotter..terrible crap to fill the entertainment gap during the week but man, when Friday came around we couldn't resist stepping up the quality several notches by going to the latest release. Back then Friday and Saturday nights were perfect for going to the movies..and EVERYBODY went!
But what really killed the movies? I'm sure it's mostly what you listed..I will say around 2005 I noticed they were making silly movies like Dukes of Hazzard, just so they could release it on DVD a month or two after..there also was the Shrek 2 fiasco, which caused Spielberg to sell his Dreamworks company. So to me the end of movies started in 2005 until...present day.
Home media hasn't helped. Netflix etc...making their own movies.
Back in the 80's when a movie came out it was 6 months to a year before you could see it on home video whereas nowadays you have movies sometimes released on home media simultaneous to theatre release.
I saw an interview Johnny Depp did in the 90s and he talked about something Brando told him. Brando asked him how many movies he did a year. Depp said he did around 3 per year and Brando told him that that was too much, that he had a limited number of characters in him and that he should spread them out over the years.
I think that is what is happening with the film industry. There are only so much stories in the world before you start to repeat them.
Surprised no one has mentioned The Terminator.
shareOr The Legend of the Lone Ranger
shareThat is surprising. I'm also surprised nobody mentioned the Rambo movies.
shareGood call on the Rambo films. I'm pretty sure everyone saw the second one but to me the first one will always be the best of the entire franchise. Although, I did like the '08 film simply called "Rambo". That was a good movie...
shareI don't know about everybody, but everybody I knew had seen these (not including ones already mentioned):
Batman
Beaches
Child's Play
Coming To America
Dead Poets Society
Dirty Dancing
Evil Dead 2
Heathers
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Rain Man
Stand By Me
The Little Mermaid
The Lost Boys
The Witches of Eastwick
Twins
Who Framed Roger Rabbit